Welcome to the Secondary Middle Education Department's (SMED)
Tools Resource Site for Teaching and Learning
The University of Maine Farmington Secondary/Middle Education Program prepares professionally certified educators by working collaboratively using the latest research to offer enriching learning experiences.
"The left side of the brain is the linear side. It is responsible for logic and sequence. This piece uses geometric shapes to illustrate this "mathematical" side of the brain." http://www.flyingwomandesigns.com/popup_image.php?pID=69
"The right side of the brain is the artistic side. Responsible for processing feelings and emotions. This pieceillustrates the free flowing nature of the right side of the brain." http://www.flyingwomandesigns.com/popup_image.php?pID=68
Moving from the Informational Age to the Conceptual Age -- What aptitudes will future teachers need to educate students to be professionally successful and personally fulfilled?
"As the forces of Asia, automation, and abundance strengthen and accelerate, the curtain is rising on a new era, the Conceptual Age. If the Industrial Age was built on people's backs, and the Information Age on people's left hemispheres, the Conceptual Age is being built on people's right hemispheres. We've progressed from a society of farmers to a society of factory workers to a society of knowledge workers. And now we're progressing yet again - to a society of creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers, and meaning makers." http://www.improvize.com/blog/_archives/2005/3/18/453537.html//
"The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic "right-brain" thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't. Drawing on research from around the world, Pink outlines the six fundamentally human abilities that are absolute essentials for professional success and personal fulfillment-and reveals how to master them. "A Whole New Mind" takes readers to a daring new place, and a provocative and necessary new way of thinking about a future that's already here." A Whole New Mind by Daniel H. Pink (ISBN 1-59448-171-7)
Design ~~ Story ~~ Symphony ~~ Empathy ~~ Play ~~ Meaning
Welcome to the Secondary Middle Education Department's (SMED)
Tools Resource Site for Teaching and Learning
"The left side of the brain is the linear side. It is responsible for logic and sequence. This piece uses geometric shapes to illustrate this "mathematical" side of the brain." http://www.flyingwomandesigns.com/popup_image.php?pID=69
"The right side of the brain is the artistic side. Responsible for processing feelings and emotions. This piece illustrates the free flowing nature of the right side of the brain." http://www.flyingwomandesigns.com/popup_image.php?pID=68
Moving from the Informational Age to the Conceptual Age -- What aptitudes will future teachers need to educate students to be professionally successful and personally fulfilled?
"As the forces of Asia, automation, and abundance strengthen and accelerate, the curtain is rising on a new era, the Conceptual Age. If the Industrial Age was built on people's backs, and the Information Age on people's left hemispheres, the Conceptual Age is being built on people's right hemispheres. We've progressed from a society of farmers to a society of factory workers to a society of knowledge workers. And now we're progressing yet again - to a society of creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers, and meaning makers." http://www.improvize.com/blog/_archives/2005/3/18/453537.html//
"The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic "right-brain" thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't. Drawing on research from around the world, Pink outlines the six fundamentally human abilities that are absolute essentials for professional success and personal fulfillment-and reveals how to master them. "A Whole New Mind" takes readers to a daring new place, and a provocative and necessary new way of thinking about a future that's already here." A Whole New Mind by Daniel H. Pink (ISBN 1-59448-171-7)
Design ~~ Story ~~ Symphony ~~ Empathy ~~ Play ~~ Meaning